Hi, I am Saša Jurić, a software developer with 10+ years of professional experience in programming of web and desktop applications using Elixir, Erlang, Ruby, JavaScript, C# and C++. I'm also the author of the upcoming Elixir in Action book. In this blog you can read about Erlang and other programming related topics. You can subscribe to the feed, follow me on Twitter or fork me on GitHub.

For the past three years, I have been evangelizing Erlang and Elixir here in Croatia, at our local annual WebCampZg event. In addition, I invested a lot of effort writing the book on Elixir which is now in its final stages.

All this work has been motivated by my own positive experience using Erlang and Elixir in production. Some four years ago, I started using Erlang almost by chance, and it helped me immensely in building a long-polling based HTTP push server together with the supporting data provider system. The more I worked with Erlang, the more I got fascinated with how useful it is when it comes to building server-side systems. Ultimately, it became my tool of choice for development of complex backend systems that need to provide reliable service.

I reached for Elixir two years ago, when I started this blog, hoping it will help me showcase the magic behind Erlang to OO developers. I was really surprised with the level of maturity and integration with Erlang, even at that early stage. Pretty soon, I started introducing Elixir in production, and discovered it further boosts my productivity.

Two years later, Elixir 1.0 is out, the ecosystem is growing, and we have great libraries such as Phoenix and Ecto, leveraging Elixir to further improve developer productivity.

Moreover, there's a lot of learning material available. In addition to excellent online getting started guides and reference, there are threepublishedbooks, with Elixir in Action almost finished, and twomore in the making. The present looks great, and the future is even more promising. These are exciting times, and a great chance to jump aboard and start using Elixir and Erlang.

While I'm in the announcement mode, I'll also mention that we're starting a local FP group here in Zagreb, Croatia. Details about the introductory drinkup can be found here, so if you happen to live nearby, come and visit us for some functional chat.